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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Aluoch",
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        "legal_name": "John Olago Aluoch",
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    "content": "I will say it another day, not today. My father said that since the church rejected me, he was determined that I become a lawyer. The values that I had from the church continued with my life. When I listen to Members talk about what is happening in our schools now; drug abuse, drunkenness, sex orgies and drug addiction, I wonder whether the departments of guidance and counselling in our schools have failed. Hon. Odanga, the Mover of the Motion, is a teacher. Are we saying that guidance and counselling in our schools has failed? A Member raised an issue of freedom of worship in the Constitution. Students who are not Christians will say: “No, We do not want to have Muslim chaplains because it is against the Constitution.” That is an issue that we need to address. In the Committee of the whole House, we need to address the issue of discrimination if this Motion discriminates other religions. If we do not have chaplains who in my understanding of the language are Christians, are we going to have Hindu counsellors, Buddhists or Sheikhs? We need to address all those so that the Motion is in consonance with the Constitution. When you look at how our students behave these days, with the burning of dormitories, we wonder whether guidance is what they need more than counseling. Do they really need chaplains to make them better citizens in the country when they grow up or do we need to have teachers counselled? If you talk about drug addiction, drunkenness, sex orgies, in my understanding, those evils happen to the students as much as they happen to the teachers. The teachers too need to be addressed so that they become better. If teachers themselves engage in those types of orgies, we do not expect their students to behave differently. We need to look at how we can factor that in the Motion. Again, we must look at how we can instill values in those children because the complaint of teachers is that parents have now left the responsibility of upbringing and instilling discipline to the teachers. If we want to instill values in our children, we should not just do it in schools. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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